Chapter 448: Alone, sword in hand, ascending Mount Yushan

Maple Mountain Fengshan Hongye Guan, clouds and sea churning, cooking smoke forming lines.

On the platform in front of the temple, a little one, less than half a person tall, was wearing a well-fitting gray-white Daoist robe, squatting in front of a fire stove, tilting its head to look at the stove, putting firewood into the stove.

A colorful cat sat beside it and instructed:

"Stir it!"

"Why stir it?"

"I don't know! I see people stirring it when they cook!" the colorful cat said.

"Oh..."

The little Daoist didn't know the reason, but followed suit.

Suddenly, the colorful cat raised its head and looked at the sky.

In its pupils, which had shrunk into vertical slits, a white egret and a crow flew over one after another. The white egret was snow-white in the light, while the crow was colorful.

The two birds landed one after another, one turning into a Daoist, and one turning into a white fox.

Lin Jue sniffed his nose for the first time.

The sweet fragrance of white porridge rushed toward him.

Then he looked at the small pot on the small fire stove, and the little Daoist beside it.

"Did you know I was coming back today? You even cooked the rice."

But he saw the little Daoist stand up, instinctively running back two steps, as if wanting to find her master, but after running two steps, she stopped, looking at this Daoist, puzzled and vigilant:

"Who are you?"

"You don't recognize me anymore? Zhang Ziyun." Lin Jue didn't find it strange; she hadn't reached the age of remembering things at that time.

"How do you know I am Zhang Ziyun?"

"Of course I know."

"Who are you?"

"I am your Uncle-Master Lin Fangjue. Did your master tell you? I even held you before leaving the capital. You couldn't speak then." Lin Jue looked down at the white porridge bubbling on the small fire stove. "I didn't expect that now you not only learned to speak, but also learned to cook. This is good, this is the true inheritance of our Yishan."

"My Uncle-Master is not called Lin Fangjue! He is called Lin Jue!"

"It's both me."

And at this moment, the fox had already bumped into the colorful cat, and they started jumping and dancing the lion dance in the air.

Lin Jue couldn't help but feel a bit of emotion in his heart.

He went on a long journey, didn't feel it had been long, and didn't feel he had changed much, but when he came back, he found that the child who didn't remember things had learned to speak. Only then did he realize that the changes of time were reflected in this way.

"Where is your master?"

"Master is sleeping in the room." Ziyun looked up at him. "I am cooking here."

"Why are you still sleeping so late?"

"Master is sick." Ziyun said.

"She is injured!" Little Flower's voice came from the side. "She went north last month to fight with yaoguai, got injured, and loves to sleep since she came back, but she's almost better!"

For a cat, hunting and fighting yaoguai and getting injured didn't seem to be a big deal. As long as it could live, it was nothing. So after finishing, it continued to jump and dance the lion dance with the fox.

However, Lin Jue immediately frowned:

"Fight with which yaoguai? Haven't the yaoguai in the north been eliminated? What yaoguai could injure her? Didn't you reply to my letter when I asked a white egret friend to deliver a letter to you last month? Wasn't everything fine then?"

Several questions in a row.

"She went after replying to the letter!" The colorful cat stopped the lion dance, and the fox stopped to wait for it. "It's a new yaoguai from the north, a tiger ghost. They said there was a war over there, many people died, and that tiger ghost moved from very far away, practicing and harming people there."

The colorful cat paused again:

"The Daoists of Yushan knew about it first, but couldn't deal with it! The Daoists of Yushan knew that the Xiao Xiao Shimei had taken an apprentice, and they came over saying that if the Xiao Xiao Shimei wanted to take an apprentice here, she had to go and kill that yaoguai! The Xiao Xiao Shimei went! And got injured! And could take an apprentice!"

After finishing, it waited for Lin Jue to continue asking.

The fox also waited for it to finish answering and continue dancing.

Lin Jue walked quickly toward the room.

Seeing this, the cat and the fox both gave up playing and ran after him one after another.

Pushing open the door of the room, he saw a delicate Daoist nun half-lying on the bed, holding a needle and thread, embroidering a small Daoist robe. Her face was still pale, and her hair was messy, just like when she was chopping wood on the mountain. She looked at Lin Jue while threading the needle, smiled slightly, and opened her mouth to say:

"Shi... xiong..."

But it was weak and hoarse: "Why did you chat with the child outside for so long..."

"Why are you so seriously injured?"

"Just a small injury... almost better..."

"What yaoguai is that? To be so powerful?"

"There are mountains beyond mountains... people beyond people... anyway, I am the one who won..." The female Daoist on the bed was gasping for breath, but she was also smiling. Whether it was because she was weak after the injury or because she had taken an apprentice, Lin Jue always felt that she looked much gentler than before when he saw her this time.

Lin Jue didn't care about this, just frowned: "Is what Little Flower said true? Those Yushan Daoists let you go and fight such a powerful yaoguai?"

"Yushan Daoist... has the reason of the Yushan Daoist... I have the reason I must go... this is also my cultivation..."

"Dog fart cultivation! Dog fart reason!"

Lin Jue's anger clearly accumulated in his heart.

Those Yushan Daoists were actually so hateful—

He had fought side by side with them in the northeast of Qinzhou, and had even taken his senior brothers to rescue them. After returning, he had also taken the opportunity of saving the poor people to repair roads for them to show goodwill. As a result, not only did they not cherish this sentiment and kindness, but they also designed to harm his little junior sister to serious injury!

"Do the senior brothers know?"

"No..."

"Good! I alone am enough! I'll be back soon!" "Where are you going..."

"Seeking a clear mind!"

How could this grudge be left to the path of alchemy and becoming true?

A long sword had already appeared in Lin Jue's hand.

As soon as the words fell, without waiting for the junior sister to open her mouth to say anything else, he exploded into a clear breeze and crashed out the window.

At this moment, he had no other thoughts, only the junior sister.

Seeing this, the fox looked out the window, and then looked at the colorful cat with its peripheral vision. Suddenly, it violently attacked, caught the colorful cat off guard, knocked it to the ground, and turned into a white shadow, chasing after the Daoist.

Outside the capital, Mount Yushan already had autumn colors.

Previously, the Yushan Daoist had contributed quite a bit to eliminating the Brocade Flower King in the northwest and fighting the Queen Mother of the West in the northeast. Coupled with the troubled times, the incense of Mount Yushan was exceptionally prosperous.

The road repaired a few years ago had now become an old road, and there were figures going up and down the thousand-layer steps of the mountain.

!

I don't know how many people were bending over to climb, and I don't know how many people were walking down the mountain sideways. The courtyards of the Daoist temple were crowded with people, and the green smoke gathered into a dragon, going straight up to the sky, so that the clouds above the Daoist temple were burned with a few colors of smoke and jade.

But suddenly, a strong wind blew in the sky.

The first to bear the brunt was that streak of green smoke. When the strong wind first arrived, the green smoke was easily blown off and disappeared.

Following that were the clouds above.

They were also torn to pieces by the strong wind.

"Hu!"

Flying sand and rolling stones in the Daoist temple, blowing the incense sticks bright, sparks splashing, ashes flying, confusing people's eyes.

The incense pilgrims in the temple didn't know why they were covering their eyes one after another.

"What's wrong?"

"Why did the wind suddenly start?"

Just as they were puzzled, they suddenly heard a voice from the sky:

"I am Lin Fangjue! Today I have a Daoist grudge to discuss with the Yushan Daoist friends. All incense pilgrims, please go down the mountain quickly to avoid accidental injury!"

When the crowd heard Lin Fangjue for the first time, they were overjoyed.

Most people knew that there was a True Person Lin in the capital, with high Daoist skills and effective yaoguai elimination. He used to be seen buying vegetables and eating porridge on the streets of the capital, but after eliminating yaoguai in the northeast, this True Person disappeared and hadn't appeared for several years.

Those who didn't know, hearing from those around them, also immediately showed surprise.

True Person Lin is back. Won't we see an eye-opener today?

But hearing the latter sentence, they were a bit at a loss.

Discuss what Daoist skills?

If it was just discussing Daoist skills, they still wanted to stay and see, to increase their knowledge, but hearing the word "grudge" and "accidental injury," they didn't understand.

But at this moment, a strong wind had already started in the sky.

At first, it was just flying sand and rolling stones, blowing fire and meteorites. Soon, the trees in the Daoist temple were shaking wildly, the bamboo branches behind the Daoist temple were quickly pressed low, and a piercing whimpering sound came from the air. After a while, even the tiles on the roof of the Daoist temple were blown down, clanging on the ground.

In this capital, it seemed to be brewing a storm that only existed by the sea or in the Western Regions.

Even the Yushan Daoists in the temple came out one after another, looking at the sky in panic and vigilance.

"Leave quickly!"

"Leave quickly!"

The voice kept coming from the sky, as if floating from the top of the head, and as if ringing in the ears, urging them to leave the Daoist temple.

"Better leave quickly! Before, when I was at Jingyun Temple, I also heard True Person Lin's voice urging us to leave. As a result, that night, Jingyun Temple was dismantled by celestial soldiers!"

"I know Jingyun Temple! Could it be that the Yushan Daoist is also an evil Daoist?"

"Don't know! Better leave quickly!"

Many incense pilgrims went down the mountain one after another and gradually went far away.

Only then did an old Daoist walk out of the Daoist temple, look at the sky, and vaguely see a figure supported by the wind, asking in a deep voice:

"Why is the Daoist friend doing this?"

"Good Yushan Daoist! You actually designed to let my junior sister go and fight a great yaoguai, making her seriously injured!"

"Eliminating yaoguai and getting injured is a common occurrence. How can it be called designing?"

"Isn't it? What do you have to say?"

"Today is a troubled time. Eliminating yaoguai and demons, isn't it the duty of us people who cultivate the Dao? Although the Lingfa Sect is not as deeply involved in the world as the Fulu Sect, how can one not be stained with human karma when cultivating in the human world? My Yushan Baiqing Palace has been built here for thousands of years, eliminating yaoguai for the people of Qinzhou, without slack. For thousands of years, I don't know how many disciples have died and been injured, which is why I have taken root in Yushan! Your Yishan inheritance wants to open to Qinzhou, sharing my Yushan's incense and offerings, and the world's reputation, naturally you have to share the responsibility of eliminating yaoguai! What is wrong with letting you eliminate a yaoguai?"

"Nonsense! In the northeast, I remembered your hard work in eliminating yaoguai, so I went to rescue you. After returning, I saw your roads damaged, so I invited people to repair the roads for you to show goodwill. As a result, you dog Daoists actually treated my junior sister like this while I was away!"

"Be respectful! My Baiqing Palace's ancestral teachings are here, not allowing other Lingfa Sect Daoist temples to invade Qinzhou. We remembered that you and I fought side by side to eliminate yaoguai in Modu Mountain, and remembered that you repaired roads for us to show goodwill. We argued for half a month before deciding to break the ancestral example, letting your junior sister eliminate the new tiger demon. After eliminating it, your Yishan inheritance will take root in Qinzhou from now on, and we won't care about your Fengshan Hongye Guan anymore!" The old Daoist below was also furious, pointing at Lin Jue. "Now you not only don't appreciate it, but also accuse and insult like this, thinking my Yushan is afraid of you?"

"Boom!"

A huge lightning bolt descended from the sky layer by layer, like a tree branch growing upside down without leaves. In a trance, it had a bit of Modu Mountain, a bit of the East Sea, and a bit of the Western Regions. Although there was no other mystery, it still had the momentum to press directly into people's hearts.

"No need to say more!"

A voice came from the sky:

"Now my junior sister is seriously injured and lying in bed. I alone, sword in hand, ascended Mount Yushan, do you think I came to reason with you?"

As the incense pilgrims on the mountain looked back, the thunder had already fallen on Baiqing Palace.

A handful of beans were scattered into the air, turning into dozens of celestial soldiers descending, surrounding the palace on the mountain tightly. In the middle, there was a giant armored god larger than the mountain peak, landing with a bang, stepping until the mountain collapsed.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 449 =====